Jatki language

Jatki, as a term, is used as:

• Jatki (جٹکی, Punjabi pronunciation: [ˈd͡ʒə.ʈə̆.kiː] ) is a name of a dialect group of Western Punjabi — consisting of Jhangvi, and Shahpuri. They are spoken in the broader Bar region, which includes the following districts: Sargodha, Mandi Bahauddin, Hafizabad (western parts), Chiniot, Jhang, Faisalabad, Toba Tek Singh, Okara, Sahiwal, Pakpattan, Bahawalnagar (northeastern parts) and Vehari (northeastern parts). ^[1]

• Jatki was used in 19th-century British sources for what would later be called Sindhi, as well as for Khetrani. ^[2] Jaṭkī is also attested in local use in Balochistan as a name for these two languages as well as for Sindhi. ^[3] Jataki was used by 19th-century British writer Richard Francis Burton for a variety of the Punjabi language. ^[4]
• Jakati is a possibly spurious name used in the Ethnologue encyclopedia for either a Romani (Gypsies) variety of Ukraine, or for the Inku language of Afghanistan. ^[5]

References

1. "District wise population report of Punjab and other provinces according to census 2017".
2. Wagha 1990 , p. 6
3. Elfenbein 1990, p. 74.
4. Wagha 1990, p. 7.
5. Hammarström, Forkel & Haspelmath 2020has an entry Jakati [jat] which is said be to spoken by 29,300 people in Ukraine. The alternative names, which include 'Jat', the classification of the language as Indo-Aryan, and a note indicating 'nomadic' suggests that the denotation is an itinerant population with roots on the Indian subcontinent, i.e., 'Gypsy' in loose terminology. 29,300 is a plausible number of Gypsies, or Roma, in Ukraine related to the Roma in countries to the west, but these Roma speak and identify as a variety of Vlax [rmy] (Aleksej P. Barannikov 1934: 24-44, Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov 2014).

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